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Just heard a “might could” on NPR’s Planet Money. About a horrific (doge) story but still kinda nice to hear

Perfect time to post this #kennedycenter

So we’ve got Doug Ford saying he was 100% thrilled Trump won the election, we’ve got Poilievre’s CPC saying Canadians being patriotic because of Trump is a problem for the CPC campaign, and there’s Danielle Smith enjoying brunch crepes at Mar-a-Lago. These Conservatives are just not worth the cost.

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

BC Premier David Eby orders removal of liquor from US 'red states' and directs the government and Crown agencies to stop buying American products and replace them with Canadian ones. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I will continue to pimp my personal "Buy Canadian" project -- a compendium of Canadian hot sauce makers from coast to coast: canadiancynic.blogspot.com/2025/01/buy-...

Judge John Hodgman puts on a good show. Briefly forgot about the horrors of this world

I love that I get to see crow rush hour as I leave work and as I arrive home

Mood:

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

If you share my deep concern that a fascist like Elon Musk could use the X algorithm to interfere with the upcoming Canadian election please write to Elections canada and demand a full investigation into X's interference in Canada. [email protected] www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

So I had an American number attached to this account that’s why. So annoyed I didn’t think to check before yesterday

Why is TikTok down for the rest of us